Beautiful Background Techniques - Let's Craft Together Blog Hop

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Tonight I'm hopping with an awesome bunch of talented Australian crafters who love sharing with you!!

This month, we are exploring Background Techniques making the background of cards look more interesting.  That could mean embossing, tone on tone stamping, scoring, splatter, smooshing, weaving strips...... the list is almost endless!!

I'm using the fabulous Water and Dotted Lines Masks for my background treatment.  I've paired that with stamping, splattering and sponging.  

For the masking, I've used a bunch of colours to create a multicoloured look - Golden Glow, Peacan Pie, Basic Gray and even some Barely Blush!!  I then took the mask away and then used my blending brushes all over the image again to give even more depth.  

I've then splattered in the corners using Peaceful Pine Stampin' Blends and the Golden Glow glimmer brush - you can see the effect a bit clearer on the inside of the card.  

And then I stamped in the corners using Fern and Flora stamp sets with the lovely leafy feature.  This is using Peaceful Pine ink too.  The greeting comes from the Phrases and Frames stamp set which fits perfectly into the frame from the Fern and Flora stamp set!!  A couple of die cut leaves from the Fern and Flora dies from Peaceful Pine and Pecan Pie cardstocks.  And the end result is that I LOVE my card!!

Make sure you keep hopping to see lots of amazing inspiration just for you!

Fern and Flora with Water Masks

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 And, if you can see yourself creating cards and sharing your love of papercrafts while inspiring others, perhaps you might be interested in joining my Stampin' Up! family - contact me to find out how.

Emboss Resist Technique with Lily of the Valley

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Tonight you get to enjoy our amazing CASEING the CATTY blog hop.  To CASE is to Copy And Share Everything or to Copy And Selectively Edit and we love to CASE from our amazing Stampin' Up! catalogues (catty!)

This week, we are CASEING from the Annual Catalogue which retires VERY SOON!! 

I've been inspired by the lovely emboss resist technique on page 116 and adapted it to another gorgeous emboss resist paper coming in our catalogue VERY SOON!  (I have actually used this card before for inspiration! Check it out HERE

This time I'm using the stunning Valley in Bloom suite.  I've added the lovely Golden Glow ink to the White Luxe paper which has similar motif to the Lily of the Valley stamp set and the coordinating Valley in Bloom paper.  

I've used one of the Lily of the Valley dies instead of the twine details, and I've also added a little strip of the lovely iridescent Sunset Shimmer Vellum.

I do love the effect of the paper piecing for the flowers - I die cut the whole image using Granny Apple Green and Golden Glow cardstock and then I chopped off the flowers from the Golden Glow and adhered them onto the stem of the Granny Apple Green die cut - looks great!

Up next is the extraordinary Rebecca

Make sure you keep hopping to see lots of great ideas!

Check out our Facebook group for lots more inspiration!

Emboss Resist Lily of the Valley

Please head over to my online store if you wish to see these products in more detail - and you can place your order anytime (if you're in Australia) while you're there (even if you're in your pyjamas!!) 

 And, if you can see yourself creating cards and sharing your love of papercrafts while inspiring others, perhaps you might be interested in joining my Stampin' Up! family - contact me to find out how.

Card Chain Swap D - Sharni

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Today I'm joining the amazing Card Swap Chain Blog Hop with 10 amazing Australian cardmakers.  Our blog hop today is a celebration of the amazing cards we sent and received when we embarked on a fun journey sending cards to each other over a period of months.  It's a card version of "Chinese Whispers".  Each of us designed a card and sent if off to one of the other participants. That person then CASED the card and sent their own version to the next person.  To CASE is to Copy and Share Everything or to Copy And Selectively Edit.  Each person's card made it's way around all 10 of us until finally a verson came home to the designer.  And Now, we are sharing these gorgeous card designs with YOU.  Enjoy the amazingness of everyone's cards and designs.

Today we are sharing a wonderful card designed by  Sharni in Chain Swap D.

 Follow the blog hop ALL the way around to see the evolution of her gorgeous card.

This is actually a rather fun way to use papers!!  I've used the Lovely and Beautiful paper for my card.

There is a bit of fussy cutting with those gorgeous foil flowers!!

Here is the original card that started the chain - you can see the card has changed along the way somewhat!!

Make sure you keep hopping to see this amazing evolution!!

Lovely and Beautiful Chain Swap

Please head over to my online store if you wish to see these products in more detail - and you can place your order anytime (if you're in Australia) while you're there (even if you're in your pyjamas!!) 

 And, if you can see yourself creating cards and sharing your love of papercrafts while inspiring others, perhaps you might be interested in joining my Stampin' Up! family - contact me to find out how.

Farewell to pretty colours!! CI#208

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Tonight I'm joining in with the Colour INKspiration crew and our awesome colour combination!!

This week we are saying farewell to our In Colours from the last 2 years - and what a bunch of gorgeous colours they are!! 

I decided to use them all on the one card......

I've torn strips of each of the cardstocks and layered them onto a Basic White square for the card front.

And then I used Stampin Blends to colours the flowers and leaves from the Covered in Flowers Accents.

The greeting comes from the Banner Sayings set and punched using the Three Banner Punch.

INKspired to join the challenge? It's so easy. Firstly, get some INKspiration by checking out all of the creations of the Colour INKspiration Crew in the challenge album on our Facebook page. Then you have 12 days from today to make and upload your creation to the Facebook Colour INKspiration Group. You don't have to have a blog to participate but if you do you can link back to your post. Make sure you use all of the challenge colours. You can also use neutrals such as Basic White, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Basic Beige and Basic Black as well as Metallics.

Not a member of the Colour INKspiration Facebook group yet? Just click here and ask to join Colour INKspiration, add the group to your favourites and share it with your crafty friends so they can join in the fun too. We can't wait to see what you create with these gorgeous colours.

Farewell to Incolors

Please head over to my online store if you wish to see these products in more detail - and you can place your order anytime (if you're in Australia) while you're there (even if you're in your pyjamas!!) 

 And, if you can see yourself creating cards and sharing your love of papercrafts while inspiring others, perhaps you might be interested in joining my Stampin' Up! family - contact me to find out how.